In the past couple weeks, once again high ranked teams fell apart on the court, unable to bolster their resumes for top spots in the upcoming NCAA Championship Tournament: #4 Kansas fell to #14 Iowa State on January 24th. #5 Texas A&M lost to unranked Arkansas on January 26th. #3 Iowa lost to #8 Maryland…
(Warning: Math Heavy) The NFL has an adage: “Any given Sunday.” This phrase typically means that during any week, for any given match-up between two teams, either team has a relatively high probability of winning the game. This translates into parity within the league. Typically we should see teams win between 6 and 10 games…
In this article, we come back from a month hiatus and introduce a normalized rankings model for ranking every team in the NBA. By normalized ranking, we set all rankings to a score between zero and one, where one is a perfect ranking and zero is the worst possible ranking. To build the model we consider…
Over the course of the previous 15 days, there have been some serious upsets within the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball landscape. On January 12th, #11 West Virginia ran #1 Kansas out of the arena with a 74-63 win. On the same day, #3 Maryland dropped a close 70-67 game to Michigan. One day later,…
As of the morning of December 28th, 2016, there have been a total of 2,227 games played by the 351 NCAA division I teams. This means that we are approximately 42% of the 2015-16 season completed. Despite closing in on the halfway mark for the season, there have been only a total of 38 conference…
Over our two week hiatus from Squared2020.com, there were 52 NBA games played, bringing us to a third of the season completed. During this time, we finally saw the Golden State Warriors drop their first game of the season, managing to go 24 consecutive games before their first loss in Milwaukee on December 12th. We…
Recently, Forbes posted America’s Most Dangerous Cities of 2015 which attempted to rank the most violent cities with populations over 200,000 persons. Despite urgings by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to refrain from making violent crime rankings, several groups such as the former Morgan Quitno and, presently, Forbes continue to put forth rankings. In this…
For our third installment of city-by-city analysis, we take a look at our nation’s capital: Washington, D.C. With a population of approximately 658,900 spanning over 61.4 square miles, D.C.’s population density is approximately 37 persons per average square city block; or 10,731 persons per square mile. D.C. having one of the highest population densities and…
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the largest city in Wisconsin with approximately 600,000 residents and has started to notice a sharp increase in violent crimes over the recent couple years. For 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation noted through the Uniform Crime Report that Milwaukee had reported 90 murders, 395 reports of rape, 3,520 robberies, and 4,859 reports of aggravated assaults.…
Oakland, California is the eighth largest city in California with a population of approximately 391,000 spanning over 78 square miles in the East Bay area on the San Francisco Bay. Oakland has more than 50 distinct neighborhoods broken up into 10 primary districts: North Oakland, West Oakland, Chinatown and Central, San Antonio, Fruitvale, Central East Oakland,…
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